Morgan Housel

It's one thing to admire someone if you can pick bits and pieces.

I want his house and her car and his career and his physique, but you can't pick bits and pieces.

You have to take the whole thing.

And once you take the whole thing, you realize that like a lot of the people who you may have been looking up to,

either did not have a better life than you did, or it was just marginally better in a way that was easy to overlook.

Another Jimmy Carr quote that I love.

He's a profound individual.

Not only is he hilarious, he's very smart.

The quote is, everyone is jealous of what you've got.

Nobody's jealous of how you got it.

And I think it's just so easy to overlook.

One of the things I write in the book is what's called the reverse obituary, which is it's a very good, helpful exercise to write down.

It's kind of morbid, but what do you want your obituary to say?

Kind of a weird thing, but for me, everyone's different.

But for me, I would want it to say, Morgan was a good father, a good husband, a good friend, helped his community, was a good worker.

That's what I would want it to say.

Never in a million years in that obituary would I want it to say,

what my income was, how big my house was, how many times I went on vacation, how many horsepower my car had.

Like it was ridiculous to think that that's what it would be.

I would want it.